Posted Feb-25-2012 By

MongoFlows

Posted Feb-24-2012 By

Brutusbruno

I'm going to say a few things here and before anyone accuses me of not knowing or whatever I was over in Afghanistan for some time so I have experience.

I don't think this was shrapnel. No explosion or anything. Shrapnel will pierce skin. The force of even the smallest explosions is enough to penetrate skin. I along with several buddies have taken shrapnel, some worse than others- I was lucky, and I can say this from first hand experience. Not to mention the angle he was positioned. You aMore..lso don't hear it coming, which you will. I'm not saying he was faking, but it could have been a number of things.

The guys in his truck are worthless. They didn't say shit for a while after he was yelling. If this was my platoon we would have jumped out of the M-ATV and been treating him as needed. That's embareassing.

Next, there is no need for him to tell the other gunner to shoot. He can do it himself for one. If the Duke antenna was in his way, he can use his headset to tell the driver to position the truck at a different angle. OR if he really wanted the other gunner to shoot, he could have used the headset instead of trying to throw brass like a dunce. Regardless, they were not being engaged and there was no need to fire.

I CANNOT believe he opened up with that burst at 2:10 that close to another truck. If he wants to get rounds down range, use your headset and direct fire on target through another gunner. He also carelssly fired at a cyclic rate without first aiming. Open with a short burst to see where your rounds hit, adjust if needed then fire for effect.

Next, inform the other gunners you are reloading or your driver or TC at least so they can inform the other trucks. That is critical.

His fucking M4 should be loaded. Why it isn't is beyond me.

I'm not trying to rip this guy apart but he did some stupid shit in this video. Hope they made it home, looks like southern Afghanistan to me.Less..

Posted Feb-24-2012 By

HailToTheSkunk

@crazyhorse357 It could have been a rock or even a dirt clod. With no blood it definitely wasn't shrapnel. No obvious explosion so it's not likely. A round once hit very close to me and sent a rock into my face. With the adrenaline you have no idea. As funny as this may sound it could have also been a bite or sting from some insect. It's happened before.

Posted Feb-24-2012 By

TheEvilDead

A bullet impacted the armor near him. The huge amount energy released is what he felt. I don't think that he was hit with anything but not knowing the feeling is enough to scare anyone into thinking they are hit the first time they have that experience. When a bullet impacts near you it is a feeling that you have never felt before so the first time it can be confusing if you are actually hit.

Posted Feb-24-2012 By

Manzells

Posted Feb-24-2012 By

kad123

I'm no liberal by any means.. but in all reality consider this.
This is the 21rst century.. And yet almost every country on earth has an army, whose sole purpose is to killl people and destroy property.
Think about it..: kill people and destroy property.
Shouldn't we be beyond this at this point in history?

TheRealVisionary

Posted Feb-25-2012 By

SmokeFerret

@TheRealVisionary So you are saying we should all be equal among different cultures and put our differences aside? I agree. Last time I was up in Canada I noticed you still make the Indians sit in a back room separate from the bar and the rest of the people in the main room and get served by the bartender through a hole in the wall. That wasn't too long ago either.

Posted Feb-25-2012 By

ValleyBlacksmith

@TheRealVisionary Who says we've advanced? Yeah the tech, the doctrine and the training is better. I still haven't seen anything that says we're actually superior to previous generations. Heck, inspect an medieval equivalent of an industrial machine and you'll see the same expressions of genius that are now etched into silicon today.

Posted Feb-25-2012 By

verykron

@ValleyBlacksmith In Toronto we have just about every race imaginable that there is and everybody living side by side, now speaking of which last time i went to Detroit in Michigan Now that was a shit hole full of racist asses

Posted Feb-25-2012 By

milli74

@milli74
Toronto... You said enough right there. Have been to Toronto over a hundred times since '73. May as well have said San Franfreako.
Do yourself a favor, Tuitz. Take a drive one of these days at least ten klicks outside the city limits. There is a whole wide world out there.
"Yours to discover."